Transit Festival

Transit 8
Festival

BEAUTY AS A WEAPONTheatre - Women - Conflict

1-12 June 2016at Odin Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark

1-3 June:
Odin
Teatret's women

4-6
June:
Workshops and work demonstrations

7 June:
Workshops and symposium

8-12 June:
Festival

Every day we are confronted with what
seems like a worldwide war against women. Also theatre
practitioners are in search of an effective reaction. The only
answer I have found is to do my work well, learning to use beauty
and poetry as weapons. Conflict - in the sense of drama -
contributes to the engagement and motivation of theatre
performances. The fields of action imply a different use of words.
In our craft the alternative to violence is not necessarily harmony
and pacifism, but a fighting spirit that protects the values of
life, diversity, exchange and beauty. These are some of the themes
and questions that will be confronted during the Transit 8
Festival, through practical work and the contiguity of performances
and women's different points of view.